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Stacy Merrill Surla

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Stacy Merrill Surla

Lecturer; Assistant Director, MS Human-Computer Interaction

ssurla@umd.edu
202-258-1274
 USG
http://www.metametrics.com/

Availability to Accept New PhD Students

This faculty member is NOT currently accepting Ph.D. students

BIO

Stacy Surla is a teacher, a practicing User Experience Strategist, and Director at Stellar User Experience, LLC. Ms. Surla helps clients, teams, and students design products and services that work well for their intended users. Stacy’s career spans more than 30 years, with a concentration on human-centered transformation in not-for-profit and government settings. Ms. Surla is also an adjunct professor at Kent State University’s graduate IA/KM program.

In her practice, Ms. Surla is establishing a human-centered and design-thinking way of working, with the goal of helping people and programs solve big problems, especially in the areas of expression, engagement, invention, and knowledge. She is particularly interested in researching and driving effective approaches to integrating user experience into Agile development, and in the project of reframing information architecture as a discipline.

Research & Focus Areas